86 BULLETIN 127, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length between perpendiculars, 82 feet 7 

 inches; beam, 22 feet 9^ inches; depth, 8 feet 6 inches. Scale of 

 model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 

 Gift of D. A. Simpson. Cat. No. 76,127 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of merchant brig. 



The square-rigged brig Cheiimnus^ of Newburyport, was built from 

 this model at Newbury in 1841. She was owned by Messrs. John N. 

 Gushing and H. Johnson, and was employed in trading on the north- 

 west coast of America, particularly in the Columbia Kiver region. 

 She was special^ designed for this and may be taken as a fair tj^pe 

 of the fuller class of merchant vessels engaged in that trade between 

 1840 and 1850. 



The Chenamus was a wooden, carvel-built, keel vessel, with full, 

 flaring bow, almost square at rail; long, low floor; wall side with 

 considerable tumble in; short, full run; heavy, square stern; little 

 sheer. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length, over all, 97 feet; beam, 20 feet; 

 depth, 12 feet 9 inches; tonnage, 202, old measurement. Scale of 

 model, five-sixteenths inch equals 1 foot. 

 Gift of John N. Gushing. Cat. No. 76,057 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of clipper merchant brig. 



This model represents the extreme type of American clipper brig 

 of the period between 1840-1850. These vessels had a heavy drag 

 (the draft forward being only about half of that aft), and were 

 rigged with a strong rake to their masts (often a line dropped from 

 the main truck would fall aft of the taffrail). They were exceed- 

 ingly swift, especially when close-hauled, and had a world-wide 

 fame. 



The model has a sharp bow, with straight or convex lines ; high, 

 rising floor; long, easy turn to bilge; long, rather lean run; heavy, 

 Square stern; rather straight on top; greatest beam on deck about 

 one-third the length from stem. The stem and sternposts have a 

 strong rake. The model is mounted and fitted with keel, stem, stern- 

 post, short head, and square-heeled rudder; also with stub bow- 

 sprit, monkey rail, davit, cathead, etc., illustrating the style of fit- 

 ting vessels of this class at the period when it was made. It is 

 painted to represent the prevailing style of painting this class of 

 vessels. The bronze on the bottom imitates copper. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 112 feet; beam, molded, 

 26 feet 8 inches; depth, molded, 12 feet; tonnage, 255, old measure- 

 ment. Scale of model, three-eighths inch equals 1 foot. 



This model was made at Baltimore in January, 1845, for John N. 

 Gushing, of Newburyport, Mass. It was for a clipper square-rigged 



